The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-02-10

men in science, and law, and medicine, and
literature and merchandise are gradually
coming to believe in Christianity, and soon
there will be no people who disbelieve in it,
except those conspicuous for lack of brain Or
men with two families, who do not like the
Bible because it rebukes their swinish PRO-
pensitics.
The time is fastening when there will be no
infidels left except ibertines and harlots and
murderers. Millions of Christians where once
there were thousands, and thousands where
once there were hundreds. What bright
evening this, the evening of the nineteenth
century and the twentieth century, which
will dawn in thirteen years from now, will,
in my opinion, bring universal victory for
Christ and the church, that now is marching
on with step double quick Or if you prefer
the figure of the text, is being swept on i'll
the mighty gales of blessing, imposing and
grand and majestic and swift, like pillars of
smoke.
Oh, come into the church through Christ
the door, a door more glorious that that Of
the Temple of Hercules, which had two pill
lars, and one was gold and the other emerald!
Come in to-day! Come in and be one of the
eternal victorsl The world you leave behind
is poor world, and it will burn and pass Off
f1agration will start in the coal mines of
Pennsylvania, which, in some places, have
for many years been burning and eating
into the heart of the mountains; or whether
it shall begin near the California geysers, or
whether from out of the furnaces of Cotopoxi
and Vesuvius and Stromboli, it shall burst
forth upon the astonished nations l make
no prophecy, but all geologists tell US
hot ctand tbA of
the heart of which is raging, roaring, awful
flame, and some day God will let the red mon
sters out of their imprisonment of centuries,
and New York on fire in 1885 and Charleston
ON fire in 1865 and Chicago on fire in 1872 and
Boston on fire in 1878 were only like one spark
from blacksmith's forge as compared with
that last universal blaze, which will be
seen in other worlds. But gradually the
flames will lessen and the world will
become a great living coal, and that
will take on ashen hue, and then our
ruined planet will begin to smoke, and the
mountains will smoke, and the valleys will
smoke, and the islands will smoke, and the
seas will smoke, and the cities will smoke, and
the five continents will be five pillars of smoke.
But the black vapors will begin to lessen in
height and density, and then will become
hardly visible to those who look upon it from
the sky galleries, and after while from just
one point there will curl up thin solitary
vapor, and then even that will vanish, and
there will be nothing left except the charred
ruins of a burned out world, the corpse of a
dead star, the ashes of an extinguished
planet, fallen pillar of smoke.
But that will not interfere with your in
vestments if you have taken Christ as your
Saviour. Secure heaven as your eternal
home, you can look down upon dismantled
disrupted and demolished earth without any
perturbation.
When wrapped in fire the realms of ether glow,
And heavens last thunder shake the earth below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt DER the ruins SMILE
And light thy torch at natures funeral pile.